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And in particular lightroom vs CS3b.  Lightroom is meant to b an improvement in Raw but I assume that has been incorporated into CS3 aswell.

Seems a bit expensive for file organisation and non destructive RAW (if CS3 raw is similar).  Having said that, Adobe has never been cheap.

I am thinking about upgrading my workflow (from a combo of free canon software and PSE2) but the cost does seem excessive.  Plan is CS3 and Bridge. Convert Raw to PNG with the PNG downloader and convert in CS3. keyword etc in bridge.

I bought it too. The beta had me hooked from the start. ACR is built right in and looks almost identical to the stand alone product. The healing/clone tool work well as does the red-eye reduction. The final version also runs much faster than the beta - except it now hangs for a few seconds when you finish entering keywords. (maybe just me?)

I recently traveled to Colorado with a bantam hockey team as the official photographer. Lightroom had no problem keeping up with thousands of photos I dumped into it. Before finishing all the post-processing I upgraded my beta to the full version and it all migrated correctly. All shots were then exported in web galleries and posted for viewing as well has hi-res backed up on DVD for future printing. (Lightroom's built-in web templates are much slicker than anything apple offers with iphoto/iweb)

No matter what though - you will still need Photoshop for more advanced editing

I use CS2 and Bridge.  I tried the beta of CS3 but decided against it due to memory hog.

I tried the trial of lightroom and junked it after two days.  The reason: it couldn't recognise same file name/different file extension so it wouldn't import any of the jpegs.

Let me explain: I have four copies of every picture - the original, a PSD, a max res jpeg for stock and a small size web version.  My files all have the same name, so catanddog.psd is also catanddog.jpeg.  Lightroom couldn't cope with this and decided that all my jpegs were 'duplicate files'.  I spent a couple of days trying to get round the problem then just uninstalled it.

Hi Phil

I have the exact same question! I posted on a couple of LR forums about this but it doesn't seem to be an option for now...allas.... maybe in V1.1   Let's cross our fingers!